Judges

Asif is Sustainability Director at Perkins & Will. He has raised the profile of carbon proficiency in the practice which includes a costed Zero Carbon Report at the end of concept design for all architectural projects. He has been advocating the use of circularity in design and as part of interiors and hospitality provides a Life Cycle Analysis for all projects and a roadmap to achieving full circularity by 2030.  He has also been involved in expanding the environmental remit within designs as part of the 'Living Design' initiative utilising a multivalent approach rather than singular metrics.

Asif is an Architect with over 20 years' experience in delivering Zero Carbon design projects. Notably BedZED and Jubilee Wharf in Penryn, Cornwall. He has worked in the UK and abroad in China and the Middle East. He has a PhD in Life Cycle design of buildings from Cass School of Art and Design at LMU.

Katrina works across The Times and The Sunday Times as interiors editor, and has written a design trends column for the Home section for over a decade. Her first editing job was at a magazine about stolen art, and she subsequently wrote for the Evening Standard and the FT’s How to Spend It.

Paul Moody works as the Global Digital and Marketing Director for Havwoods wood flooring. With a degree in Design, Paul joined the Havwoods team in 2017 heading the company’s digital and marketing development. With a keen eye on design within the flooring industry in particular, Paul spends a lot of his time in understanding the latest trends and designs available, as well as working on all aspects of sustainability. Paul says: ‘It is a true honour for me to be part of the BIID Interior Design Awards panel and I hope to be able to learn a few things along the way.’

Simone is an artist, designer, educator & cultural changemaker. 

Strongly grounded in craft, Simone uses her creative outputs as her voice, celebrating and sharing windows into varied Black female narratives and histories. Born and based in London, UK; the threads that flow throughout her work display a balance of function with beauty, a repurposing  of the “ ethnic” and the “western” and a continuous playing with scale, materiality and architectural form.

Brewster's work has been exhibited at the British Embassy as an example of British Design Talent, been shown internationally with the Crafts Council UK, showcased during Collect at the Saatchi Gallery, among other domestic and international venues. She has been profiled in Vogue UK, Vanity Fair and Elle Decoration with her painting both on domestic and international platforms. 

Busola Evans is a freelance interiors journalist, in over 20 years, she has written for a number of newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph and Grazia, and was an interiors columnist for the London Evening Standard's ES Magazine. Before joining The World of Interiors, she was deputy editor at Livingetc magazine, where she also edited its kitchen and bathroom supplements and wrote a monthly column. Busola is on the advisory board of Women In Journalism, the UK's leading organisation for female journalists, and regularly chairs panels and discussions covering issues within the industry which affect its members. She is also on the steering committee of United In Design, a charity formed to tackle the lack of diversity in the UK's interiors industry.